Magdala

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Magdala
in Smiths Bible
Dictionary. (a tower). The chief MSS. and versions exhibit the name as MAGADAN,
as in the Revised Version. Into the limits of Magadan Christ came by boat, over
the Lake of Gennesareth after his miracle of feeding the four thousand on the
Mountain of the eastern side, Mt 15:39 and from thence he returned in the same
boat to the opposite shore. In the parallel narrative of St. Mark, ch. Mr 8:10
we find the "parts of Dalmanutha," on the western edge of the Lake of
Gennesareth. The Magdala, which conferred her name on "Mary the Magdalene one of
the numerous migdols, i.e. towers, which stood in Israel, was probably the place
of that name which is mentioned in the Jerusalem Talmud as near Tiberias, and
this again is as probably the modern el- Mejdel, a miserable little Muslim
village, of twenty huts on the water's edge at the southeast corner of the plain
of Gennesareth. It is now the only inhabited place on this plain.
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Magdala
(Magadan, Dalmanutha): Mejdel. This small city on the western shore of the Sea
of Galilee was about 3 miles N of Tiberias. Taricheae was a Greek name of the
place called in Hebrew Migdal (Magdala), from 'taricheuein' to smoke or preserve
fish "pickling places." Strabo mentions that this place has excellent pickling
places. The pickled fish of Galilee were known throughout the Roman and Greek
world. Large quantities were taken up to Jerusalem at the season of the yearly
feasts, because of the great multitudes. Barrels were also transported around
the Mediterranean. Josephus also describes Tarichae as a place "full of
materials for shipbuilding, and with many artisans" (iii Wars, 10:6).